Making a decorated egg for Easter

Looking for crafts to do this Easter? Decorating eggs is an obvious choice, ideal for kids. Plus there are lots of creative ways to decorate your eggs and create a really original and unique looking Easter egg, lovely decorations for your home over Spring. Here are some of our favourite ideas...

Fun ways to decorate your eggs this Easter

Elastic bands: Wrap the elastic bands randomly around your egg and dip into the food dye, wait until it is dry and remove the bands. You could also remove only some of the elastic bands at this stage and repeat with a second colour.

Thumb-prints: Put some paint in a small bowl and allow your child to dip their thumb in and print onto the egg. When dry, you could turn the thumb prints into animals or faces by drawing on the details with a fine marker pen.

Stickers: Dip the whole egg into a food dye colour of your choice and leave to dry. Decorate using a variety of small Easter stickers.

Crayons: Draw a pattern onto the egg using white or light coloured crayon. Dip into food dye and when you take it out, the crayon pattern will still be visible. Leave to dry.

Egg creatures: Decorate your eggs with a variety of googly eyes, beads, glitter, sequins, wool, ribbon, feathers etc. This can be done on a plain egg or one that has already been dyed, and a fine marker pen can be used to add detail.

Crazy paving: Hard boil an egg and then use the back of a teaspoon to break all the shell into 'crazy paving'. Soak the egg in some food colouring for a bit - when you then take the shell off you'll have the pattern underneath! A good way to get kids eating hard boiled eggs!

Felt pens: The easiest option - simply use felt tip pens to decorate you egg. The results can be just as lovely as more complicated decorating methods!

How to blow an egg for decorating: Instead of hard boiled eggs, you could blow the eggs to make the egg hollow and decorate the outside. First make two holes at either end of the egg with a needle and blow through one to make the insides come out of the other (if they're not coming out, make the hole a bit bigger!) Then tie some cotton onto the middle of a match. Insert the match into the egg and twist it so it doesn't come out and you can hang your egg from the cotton. Then decorate with anything - sequins, paints, ribbon etc!